Special Issues of Radioengineering

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A Special Issue on Cognitive radio communications and software defined radio

December 2010
Guest Editors: Maziar Nekovee and Roman Marsalek

Increasing demands for high speed wireless access gave rise to new approach to radio communications and spectrum management – Cognitive Radio (CR). One of the key components of cognitive radio – dynamic spectrum access – shows a way to overcome the scarcity of one of the natural resources – radio frequency spectrum. The research in the domain of CR spans the wide area from information and signal theory, physical and MAC layer architectures or network theory to economic, legal and policy issues. Moreover, the future of cognitive radio would not be possible without the advances in the software defined radio architectures, signal processing or intelligent learning and optimization algorithms. This special issue of Radioengineering journal thus aims to gather the innovative contributions in the domain of cognitive radio and reconfigurable software defined radio and present them to the reader interested in this recent exciting area.

The following topics should be addressed (but is not limited to) in this issue:

• Fundamentals of cognitive radio
• Spectrum sensing, dynamic spectrum access
• Cognitive radio networking
• Cross layer optimization
• PHY/MAC/higher layer design
• Protocols for spectrum agile communications
• Interference mitigation and management
• Cooperative communications, data fusion
• QoS and admission strategies
• Spectrum usage measurements
• Cognitive principles in vehicular communications and infrastructure
• Security and legal issues in cognitive radio
• Biologically inspired algorithms for cognitive radio optimization
• Wireless sensor networks and cognitive radio
• Synchronization and channel estimation for Cognitive radio
• Signal processing for software defined radio
• Adaptive resource allocation and coding
• Multimode Software defined radio
• Reconfigurable software defined radio
• Real time implementations and test-beds
• Standardization process, applications